Bug#291177: [PROPOSAL] Policy for user/groups creation/removal in package maintainer scripts

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> There is currently no policy on how should per-package users be created and 
> removed. Eeven though the 'UID and GID classes' sections determines that 
> packages _should_ use adduser --system in some occasions it doesn't 

Make it *must* use adduser --system, *if* they add an user at all.

> - maintainers scripts should create a system user for their daemon in
> postinst.  User creation should not fail if the user already exists
> (example code should be provided here, since this is sometimes not done
> properly in maintainer scripts). Maintainer scripts can ask to the admin if 
> the user already exists.

Maintainer scripts can ask about an already existing user *if and only if*
it is not a system user...  no more useless, aggravating postinst prompts,
please.

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  Henrique Holschuh